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Small, minority business opportunities should be enhanced.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 29-NOV-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Small, minority business opportunities should be enhanced.(Mississippi Contract Procurement Center)

Article Excerpt
The merger of the Mississippi Contract Procurement Center (MCPC) with the Minority and Small Business Development Division of the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) will further bolster an already positive state business climate, according to the new entity's director.

Director Richard Speights said, "The business climate in Mississippi is one of the most friendly in the country. There is no shortage of opportunity, and we expect to greatly increase those opportunities for minority and small businesses."

Speights, a retired officer of the U.S. Navy who worked with government contracts while on active duty, spent seven years as executive director of the MCPC before taking the helm as director of MDA's Minority and Small Business Development Division. "Our program has...

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